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This Addams Family is basically a series of variations on TV's sick joke of domestic normality. When the children try to sell lemonade to a girl who insists that it be made from real lemons, they ask if her Girl Scout cookies are made from real Girl Scouts. Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) may have spent too many years in the Bermuda Triangle -- could be he's not really Uncle Fester -- but plot twists need not concern us. It's the filigree work that's worth watching...
...well-prepared Boy Scout troop would wander into the wilderness without a compass. But Scouts may soon have a more sophisticated way to keep from getting lost, using a technology that the Army made famous during Operation Desert Storm. To find their bearings in the desert landscape, soldiers relied on hand-held electronic gadgets called Global Positioning System receivers. The devices, which pick up signals from a $10 billion network of U.S. satellites, can pinpoint a location instantly anywhere on the earth...
Civilians can buy similar products from electronics companies. GPS receivers steer boaters around dangerous reefs, track schools of bait for fishermen and help pilots avoid midair collisions. The price of a receiver -- $1,500 to $3,800 -- is steep for Scout troops but falling rapidly...
...Israelis did their bit toward increasing tensions by sending four F- 16 fighter planes over Iraq to scout out Scud missile sites, crossing through the airspace of Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan in the process. Jerusalem's explanation was that it was not satisfied with U.S. intelligence on Iraq's remaining military capabilities and wanted to see for itself what it might be up against if the festering disagreements over Iraq's disarmament came to blows. In fact, Shamir's government seemed to be sending a firm message to its own people as much...
Though Mitterrand continues to exploit the French position in the middle, signaling his country's potential for mischief in dealings with difficult regimes, he can now justify his approaches to China or Iran as those of an eclaireur, or scout, for American diplomacy. France's ace in the hole remains its latitude for independence, especially in framing an autonomous "defense identity" and common foreign policy for Europe. Says a senior French military officer: "We will always stand with the U.S. in the great battles of the West. After that, we again become a difficult ally...